{"id":14699,"date":"2026-02-28T13:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=14699"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:44:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:44:41","slug":"the-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/28\/the-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-edited.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"579\" height=\"869\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-edited.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14669\" style=\"width:210px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-edited.png 579w, https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-edited-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I had got it in my head that I was going to learn how to tell a story, you know, like they do for The Moth. And for the past few months, I&#8217;ve been going to live storytelling events around Seattle. They&#8217;re all different, but they&#8217;re grounded in the action of getting up in front of a the room with no notes and telling the room about that one time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have the recording from my latest attempt. Also, you need to know that when I told this story, I was wearing the hat I&#8217;m wearing in this photo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FGS-Doing-the-right-thing-Pam-2-19-2026-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told a story at a live event and I did not screw it up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seattle","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14703,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14699\/revisions\/14703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}